Planet Mu is the label that recently brought jungle pioneers Bizzy B and Remarc out of retirement, but this face-meltingly weird album from Los Angeles sound mangler Phthalocyanine (catchy name, mate) is on different tip altogether. A heady, messy mixture of gabba, d&b and Aphex Twin-style electronics, it sounds like a mad scientist's experiment gone horribly wrong. It's great fun in a schizophrenic kind of way, and is a definite must-check for more

What is the monster doing to music? Does he realise you shouldn't be able to make such noise and get away with it? Does he realise it's brilliant? Phthalocyanine obviously has no respect for musical formats, period. This is good. He takes the rock steady beat of classic house, the wiggling vines of acid techno and higher ended twiddles of electronica and pours them down your eyes. He pumps out squirming pulses before flooding these sand grain more

No One Said You Didn't

The funny thing about Phthalocyanine is that up until last week I had never heard anyone even mention Phthalocyanine and all of a sudden Phthalocyanine is fuckin' everywhere. Phthalocyanine in the supermarket, Phthalocyanine on morning talk radio. I even overheard two people from sales talking about Phthalocyanine. What next, is the rented DJ at the office Christmas party going to be droppin' Phthalocyanine?! News just in: just before Vice went to print, the rented DJ at my office Christmas party did play Phthalocyanine,

To say I was a little confused about the name of this artist would be an understatement. Just on the press release you can find three different spellings and no pronunciation guide, so I though I’d better do some investigating. A couple of mouse clicks later and I’d found all the answers:Phthalocyanine – Pronunciation Key (th l -s -n n , fth l -)

- Any of several stable, light-fast, blue or green organic pigments derived from the more